January 13 / Friday / 1:00 PM / 4041 HSSB: LANDON STORRS, History, University of Houston. Professor Storrs speaks on "Hidden Convictions: the Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal," which is also the title of her forthcoming book. In 2000 Storrs published Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era.            

January 20 / Friday / 1:00 PM / 4041 HSSB: FRED BLOCK, Sociology, University of California, Davis. His talk is on "Karl Polanyi, Social Democracy, and the Current Crisis". Block is the editor, most recently, of State of Innovation: The U.S. Government's Role in Technological Policy (2011) and is now completing Karl Polanyi and the Battle of Economic Ideas. His pre-circulated paper can be found here.     

January 27 / Friday / 1:00 PM / 4041 HSSB: ERIC ARNESEN, History, George Washington University, offers a paper, “Civil Rights and the Cold War At Home: Post-War Activism, Anticommunism, and the Decline of the Left.” Arnesen is the author of Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (2001) and Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923. He is writing a biography of A. Philip Randolph. His pre-circulated paper can be found here.    

February 2-3 "THE PORT HURON STATEMENT AT 50." A conference on the history, impact, and contemporary relevance of the New Left's founding manifesto. Keynote speakers: Michael Kazin and Tom Hayden. Among the other participants: Richard Flacks, Joshua Freeman, Daniel Geary, Grace Hale, Jane Mansbridge, Nelson Lichtenstein, Lisa McGirr, James Miller, Bob Ross, Eric Olin Wright, and many Port Huron veterans. Co-sponsored by Dissent, The Nation, and the Associated Students. Conference begins at 2:30pm in Corwin Pavilion. To view the schedule and register for the conference, please visit the conference site here.

February 17 / Friday / 1:00 PM / 4041 HSSB: RICHARD WHITE, History, Stanford University. He speaks on "The Antimonopoly Tradition in Gilded Age America." Professor White is the author of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991), "It's Your Misfortune and None of my Own": A History of the American West (1991) and Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011). His paper can be found here.